92 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 
Fig. 79.—LOCAL COLD STORAGE 
the shipping point for the surrounding country. They 
are often associated with packing-houses, the fruit be- 
ing brought to the central house to pack and then im- 
mediately transferred to storage. Later, as the season 
advances, the fruit is re-distributed to the larger centers 
of population. Some of these houses are used only for 
temporary storages, simply to hold the fruit for a short 
time until it can be properly marketed. Occasionally 
the fruit goes from these local storage houses to the 
larger public storages in the centers of population. 
Public Storages.—By far, the most expensive and 
most important part of the storage industry is the large 
storage houses in the big cities. These are used not only 
for storage of fruit but also for the storing of meat 
products, vegetables, eggs, etc., and in most large cities 
for the storing of furs to keep during the hot weather 
of the summer. These fill a very desirable and necessary 
place in the economy of food supply, especially in the 
